Topic: Alton Ochsner

Judith Vary Baker describes her recruitment by famed oncologist Dr. Mary Sherman and Dr. Alton Ochsner to participate in a New Orleans cancer research project. The project aimed to weaponize cancer using the RPMI 1640 formula to create a fast-acting, deadly strain intended for the assassination of Fidel Castro. Baker details how the CIA sought a method to kill Castro that would appear natural and untraceable to the United States.

Dr. Alton Ochsner's personal tragedy involving the polio vaccine, which killed his grandson, influenced his views on medical trust and the potential to weaponize healthcare. Plans to assassinate Fidel Castro involved using medical technicians to contaminate blood slides with cancer cells or using high-dose X-rays to suppress his immune system. These methods relied on the dissatisfaction of Cuban doctors who felt marginalized by the shift toward the Soviet medical system.

The history of vaccination is traced back to Edward Jenner, who allegedly caused neurological disorders in his own son during smallpox experiments in 1789. Patrick Jordan draws a parallel to Dr. Alton Ochsner, whose grandchildren suffered death and paralysis after he publicly injected them with the polio vaccine. Jordan characterizes these historical and modern vaccine injuries as "fast kills" or "slow kills" amounting to murder.

The initial rollout of the Salk polio vaccine in 1955 faced immediate crisis when batches from Cutter Laboratories caused paralysis and death. Dr. Alton Ochsner, a major stockholder in Cutter and a prominent New Orleans physician, famously inoculated his own grandchildren to prove the vaccine's safety, resulting in his grandson's death. Despite warnings from safety tester Bernice Eddy, the mass vaccination campaign proceeded under intense public and political pressure.

Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the CIA and Dr. Alton Ochsner allegedly sought to weaponize cancer-causing viruses to assassinate Fidel Castro. They recruited Judith Vary Baker, a high school science prodigy capable of inducing rapid cancer in mice, to assist in the project. Baker was brought to New Orleans under the supervision of Dr. Mary Sherman to develop a biological weapon that could be covertly administered to the Cuban leader.

In 1961, Judith Vary Baker crashed an American Cancer Society press briefing in Florida, where she met Dr. Alton Ochsner and Nobel laureate Harold Urey. Urey, a key figure in the original Manhattan Project, was reportedly traveling with Ochsner to consult on the use of radiation in the New Orleans virus experiments. This meeting solidified Baker's entry into the high-level clandestine medical research community.

After Judith Vary Baker wrote a letter of protest regarding the human testing of the biological weapon, Dr. Alton Ochsner terminated her involvement and threatened her life. David Ferrie helped her secure a job in Florida and warned her that she would be killed if she spoke about the New Orleans project. Baker fled the city in the fall of 1963, shortly before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

The 1955 polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin was found to be contaminated with the SV40 virus, a carcinogenic pathogen linked to a spike in soft tissue cancers. This discovery allegedly led military intelligence to research the weaponization of cancer, with a secret lab established in New Orleans. Dr. Alton Ochsner, a prominent figure in the American Cancer Society, is identified as a key supervisor of these clandestine experiments.